Life

John Kalpakidis was born in 1945 in Thessalonica, Greece. He studied theology at the University of Thessalonica and Oxford University in Great Britain. He was tonsured a monk, with the name Panteleimon, at the [[Little St. Anne's Skete (Athos)|Little St. Anne's Skete of Mount Athos. Mnk. Panteleimon was ordained a deacon in1969, and then a priest in 1976.

Father Panteleimon was elected to the episcopate in 1994 and consecrated Metropolitan of Veria and Naousa and Exarch of Thessaly on May 29, 1994.